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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Dissecting the Pros and Cons of Contract Employment | Envision - 0 views

  • Contract Positions
  • often defined at the project level or on a specific time frame.
  • seasonal needs or staffing needs (such as when a critical employee takes paternity leave) or during special projects
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  • website redesign, or
  • someone to help during a transitional period
  • Right to Hire Positions
  • Direct Hire Positions
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    Envision is a company specializing in contract workers, right to hire contracts, or direct hire contracts
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Pros and Cons of Contract Jobs - WAHM.com - 0 views

  • Pros of Contract Jobs
  • Cons of Contract Jobs
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    pros and cons of contract jobs
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Introducing our free, easy-to-use contract building tool - 0 views

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    freelance contract instrument and process by Freelancers Union
Lisa Levinson

http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/669766.pdf - 0 views

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    GAO report that is focused on the contingent workforce. It defines a core contingent of workers as those who have no real regular work, and they make up 7.9 % of the workforce. All contingent workers represent 40.4% of the population currently, with 32.5% being more of contracted and longer-term contracted workers.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Rise of the New Contract Worker - HBR - 0 views

  • Cost flexibility:
  • Speed and agility:
  • A boost to innovation:
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  • Contingent workers bring unique experiences, fresh thinking, and new approaches to problem-solving. Today, the growing contingent workforce provides opportunities for talent-hungry corporations.
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    Tammy Erickson, September 7, 2012, writes about why people are choosing a contingent work style and how it benefits them and employers.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 Secrets of a Successful Virtual Partnership | Work ReimaginedWork Reimagined - 0 views

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    Interesting blog post bu Elizabeth MacBride, April 5, 2013, on virtual partnerships, 5 secrets 1. must have the same agenda 2. you actually like the person 3. complementary skill sets or traits 4. open lines of communications 5. good legal underpinnings Excerpt "Our number-one rule - and the glue that holds our partnership together - is keeping the workload manageable. We don't take on too many clients, and we don't hold ourselves to unrealistic standards for production. "Our business is focused on helping people navigate a big, ongoing trend-the shift from traditional jobs to an economy built around freelance, contract and temporary work. Pulling all-nighters at the business and cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world, as we might at a venture-capital backed startup, doesn't seem like the right way for us," Pofeldt says. "Why not enjoy one of the best parts of freelancing: the freedom to have an active life outside of work without apologizing for it?" Barry "CB" Martin and Larry Gaian are food writers and marketers-for-hire who met via their common networks. "This year I started several new ventures," Martin wrote via email. "I asked him to be a sounding board. On one of the ideas, he was thinking along the same lines so we decided to combine forces." They're working together under the moniker Guys In Aprons, asking food companies to hire them to write recipe posts and interview expert chefs."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

freelancers - Randstad Belgium - 0 views

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    Randstad offers four contract types: temp work, permanent work, project basis, freelance. Looks like each carries different conditions.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Shocker: 40% of Workers Now Have 'Contingent' Jobs, Says U.S. Government - Forbes - 0 views

  • Tucked away in the pages of a new report by the U.S. General Accounting Office is a startling statistic: 40.4% of the U.S. workforce is now made up of contingent workers—that is, people who don’t have what we traditionally consider secure jobs.
  • It reinforces estimates of the independent workforce that have come from observers ranging from the Freelancers Union to Faith Popcorn
  • people in this workforce are struggling economically
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  • In its push for growth, Upwork faces competition from a growing number of other freelance platforms, ranging from general marketplaces such as Freelancer.com and People Per Hour to industry-specific ones, such as 99 Designs.
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    article by Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes contributor, May 25, 2015, on 40% of the workforce working in "contingent" jobs as contractors, project employees, part-timers, on-call, agency temps, contract workers, etc. according to new GAO report.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Adrienne Rich on Why an Education Is Something You Claim, Not Something You Get - Brain... - 0 views

  • One of the devastating weaknesses of university learning, of the store of knowledge and opinion that has been handed down through academic training, has been its almost total erasure of women’s experience and thought from the curriculum… What you can learn [in college] is how men have perceived and organized their experience, their history, their ideas of social relationships, good and evil, sickness and health, etc. When you read or hear about “great issues,” “major texts,” “the mainstream of Western thought,” you are hearing about what men, above all white men, in their male subjectivity, have decided is important. And yet Rich is careful to counter any misperception that taking
  • Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. It means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre: “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
  • Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions
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  • The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.
  • Too often, all of us fail to teach the most important thing, which is that clear thinking, active discussion, and excellent writing are all necessary for intellectual freedom, and that these require hard work.
  • passive recipiency”
  • The contract on the student’s part involves that you demand to be taken seriously so that you can also go on taking yourself seriously.
  • The contract is really a pledge of mutual seriousness about women, about language, ideas, method, and values. It is our shared commitment toward a world in which the inborn potentialities of so many women’s minds will no longer be wasted, raveled-away, paralyzed, or denied.
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    taking responsibility for your own learning
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Seth's Blog: Avoiding "I'll know it when I see it" - 0 views

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    Excellent post on helping clients define what they want: do it on purpose with new clients; demand benchmarks, describe assignment, restate the problem again...
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

What Are the Differences Between Project Based and Regular Employees? | Chron.com - 0 views

  • specific project often work for a specific number of weeks or months
  • They may or may not work at your location, use your equipment, or work full time on your project
  • an independent contractor should not be given set hours, told exactly how to perform his job, or be told he can only work for you.
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  • A project-based worker usually signs a contract to work on one aspect of your business. For example, you may hire a financial person to re-do your accounting systems, a graphic artist to update your marketing materials, or a human resources professional to develop an employee benefits package
  • With a project-based contractor, you pay only the agreed-upon fee you negotiated.
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    helps define project-based employees, Sam Ashe-Edmunds
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why Your Department Needs Social Media - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Social media is crucial not only because it provides a fast way to share information, but also because it makes faculty workloads more transparent.
  • What’s also crucial about Facebook and Twitter is that they make clear the fact that faculty workloads stretch beyond teaching. Announcements of the talks we give, the articles we write, the exhibits we organize, the fellowships we win, and our media appearances emphasize that some of us work on contracts in which about half of our time is supposed to be devoted to research.
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    Very nice justification of why academic depts should and can use Twitter and Facebook, Rachel Hermann
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

There's a Difference Between Cooperation and Collaboration - HBR - 0 views

  • To start truly collaborating, here are two steps that you should take: First, consider the goal you’re trying to achieve. Map out the end-to-end work that you think will be needed to get the outcome you want.
  • Second, convene a working session with all of the required collaborators from different areas of the company to review, revise, and make commitments to this collaboration contract.
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    Ron Ashkenas, April 20, 2015, HBR distinguishes between cooperation and collaboration, but not in the way we have come to understand it online. In this case, cooperation is what some managers do when a larger collaboration is underway, but they aren't really committing to true end-to-end product development.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

There's a Difference Between Cooperation and Collaboration - 0 views

  • most managers are cooperative, friendly, and willing to share information — but what they lack is the ability and flexibility to align their goals and resources with others in real time. Sometimes this starts at the top of the organization when senior leaders don’t fully synchronize their strategies and performance measures with each other.
  • First, consider the goal you’re trying to achieve. Map out the end-to-end work that you think will be needed to get the outcome you want.
  • Second, convene a working session with all of the required collaborators from different areas of the company to review, revise, and make commitments to this collaboration contract.
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  • work through the plans, make adjustments, and find ways to share resources and align incentives.
  • cross-functional collaboration is easy to talk about but hard to do, particularly because we tend to get stuck in cooperating mode.
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    article by Ron Ashkenas on difference between cooperation and collaboration and how to set up and negotiate successful collaborations, April 20, 2015
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 Factors driving Modern Workplace Learning - Modern Workplace Learning Magazine - 0 views

  • 5 – THE EMERGING GIG ECONOMY The emerging Gig Economy means that there is no longer such a thing a job for life.-  in fact, for most individuals this means they are going to have a life of jobs. One estimate is that current students will have more than 10 jobs by the time they are 38. Companies are also going to be seeing a growing contingent workforce (made up of freelancers, independent professionals and temporary contract workers). Research from Ernst and Young shows that two in five organisations expect to increase their use of the contingent workforce by 2020. This means that people are going to be recruited WITH the skills to do a job; not recruited AND THEN trained to do the job. So if employees want to stay in a company they will therefore need to keep their skills up to date themselves. But in fact, supporting individuals to do just this will actually be beneficial to the organisation as it will reduce the costs of recruitment, So this means helping individuals organize and manage their own professional self-development inline with organizational objectives to achieve a  new level of performance.
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    great article on 5 drivers changing modern workplace learning
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Sexual harassment and the sharing economy: the dark side of working for strangers | Bus... - 0 views

  • But almost entirely overlooked amid the public outrage is the massive pool of low-wage workers – especially in the sharing economy – who are vulnerable to a wide range of abuses on the job because they lack basic labor rights.
  • “We have to talk about this as a problem these platforms have created,” said Mary Anne Franks, a University of Miami law professor who studies online abuse. “[If you’re] going to set up a platform to make it possible for people to instantaneously communicate with people they don’t know ... you know full well it’s going to be abused and weaponized.”
  • The success of many on-demand companies like DoorDash depends on hiring a large, cheap workforce of contract employees who have no benefits or job security.
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    the guardian on low wage workers in the sharing economy and their vulnerability to abuse because they lack basic labor rights.
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